The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-28
THE INTER STATE ENCANIPNrENT,
ihc Progress Making In Perfecting the Ar
rhnSements-fhe Farmers Should Attend I'm
Large Numbers.
Carolina Spartan.)

NNulollnh Spartan.)
Last week Major d. r. Duncan. +. w
Woiord and Commissioner Butler, on in
vitation Of the Governor and Commissioner
OF Agriculture of Georgia, attended a meet
ing or Georgia farmers in Atlanta. That
meeting was called to consider the condi
ton OF the farming interests and make ar
rangements for fair in Atlanta. This
does not come in competition with the in.
ter-State cncampmcnt at this place. Major
Duncan explained to the meeting what pro-
grcss we had made here and they looked
very 1aVorably on the enterprise, and stated
That Georgia would be represented. Satur.
day afternoon, there was a meeting of the
Stockholders Of the Encampment in the
Court House. DR.. Fleming, chairman of
lhe trustees stated that some of the sub
ScrlbcrS had failed to pay the amounts
promised and that in order to make all
preparations necessary more money was
needed. a motion was carried to issue as
much as thirty shares of preferred stock.
ut 5000 a share. This preferred stock Is
10 come III first in the payment of dividends
up to eight per cent. The Association re-
serves the right at any time to redeem the
stock, paying interest at the rate of ten per
cent. but it is not bound to pay interest or
dividends unless the money is made. Sew
cral questions looking TO the success of the
enterprise were discussed. Large manu-
lacturclS have been writing letters asking
about the space allowed for the exhibition
OF goods and the conditions on which thew
will be allowed to come. There are sew
cral things that will contribute to the sue
cess OF this cncampmcnt. First and fore
most large crowd of farmers is necessary.
and we cannot draw these from distant
States or counties the first year. The farm
crS or Spartanburg county are called on to
make this n success If 500 of them will
buld tents and move their families in for
one week and that fact is known before
hand, the manufacturers will come with
machinery and there will be all scots of
patent contrlVanccS on exhibition. A small
wooden tent that will give shelter to several
persons will cost $40 or $I5. The farmers
in reach can come in the last of July and
build their own tents, either hauling lumber
from home or buying it on the ground.
All the poor farmers should attend, because
they may be able to learn something. All
the good ones should certainly be there.
lOr their counsel will be needed. Those
living i'll the mineral belt of the county
should not only attend themselves but they
should have on exhibition specimens Of the
minerals and ores Of the county. Our
ncI%hbo"S across the State line should turn
out i'll force, for they are equally interested
with us in the movement. We hope to sec
IL hundred North Carolina families en-
campcd here in August. The State exhibit
which will certainly be sent here is worth
losing several days to see. One may spend
hours looking at the mineral animal and
vegetable products Of the State The
names OF several persons who are going to
build tents have been reported and it is our
desire that they all he sent into this office.
Sometime in May their names will be pub
lished' Let them come in by the hundred.